The F4U-4 Corsair was produced for longer than any other American piston-engine fighter. Its design started in 1939 and the last planes retired from military service in the late 1970s. It's last ...

More than 12,500 examples of this aircraft were manufactured by Vought beginning ... longest production run of any piston-engined fighter in U.S. history. The Corsair, designed to operate from ...

Fernando Soto in 1970 atop his Honduran Corsair, with symbols marking his ... Nearly a dozen were military-surplus Vought F4U-4, F4U-5, and F4U-5N Corsairs bought privately and imported through ...

The initial carrier-landing qualifications for the Chance Vought F4U Corsair were a disaster ... of the longest production run of any piston-engine fighter in American history.

During World War II, many Japanese regarded America’s Vought F4U Corsair fighter aircraft as the most capable aircraft in the conflict. This belief was based on more than a feeling; by the end ...

But the real king of the skies over the Pacific Ocean was the Vought F4U Corsair. It was a veritable hotrod of a fighter plane, and with a top speed of 446 miles per hour, it was briefly the ...

STRATFORD -- For the past six years, a team of about a dozen volunteers have been engaged in restoring the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair that used to sit atop a pedestal in front of Sikorsky Memorial ...

STRATFORD -- The blue Chance Vought F4U Corsair that graced the entrance to Sikorsky Memorial Airport should never return to its pedestal, according to those restoring the vintage aircraft ...

A vintage F4U ... the Chance Vought Corporation in 1946. The plane was used by many Marine Corps squadrons until 1953. The Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Fla., transferred the Corsair to ...

Enclosed in its own hanger at the Bamberg County Airport is one of the U.S.'s greatest fighter planes, a 1945 Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair. One of the few to survive foreign wars, as well as the ...